2. “And he himself was so thin, so withered, so weak…” (45)
3. "This conversation lasted no more than a few seconds. It seemed like an eternity."
4. “We were able to leave the train here. There was a labor camp on site. The conditions were good. Families wouldn't be seperated” (27).
5. 'We continued to walk until we came to a crossroads. Standing in the middle of it was, though I didn't know it then, Dr. Mengele, the notorious Dr. Mengele.'
6. Eliezer describes the dark, abysmal, hellish conditions of the concentration camps in which emotion is numbed and replaced by only pain or apathy.
7. The Red Army (the Soviet Army, affiliated with the communist party of the soviet union). (12)
9. “the soup tasted like corpses” (65)
11. "…so I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival."
16. metaphors: “As for my mother, she was walking, her face a mask without word, deep in thought” (19).
17. Simile: “And he began beating him with an iron bar. At first, my father simply doubled over under the blows, but then he seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning” (54).